Cole Cuchna

1978's Twin Theme by Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg.

The three samples they grab are all flute and piano based.

There's this short one, a longer passage, and another longer passage.

Now here's how they're sequenced together in face to face.

So if you're wondering how the hell this could possibly fit into the song, well, I wish I had an answer for you.

This is a piano ballad with a flute lead.

Some of the notes don't even make sense in face-to-face key.

On paper, this shouldn't work.

And yet, as we've witnessed again and again on this album, Daft Punk are magicians, combining sounds and astonishing and unexpected ways to create musical moments we've never heard before.

It's one final stroke of brilliance added to one of the most ambitious, complex, and impressive sample-based songs in history.

With those last three samples, we've now fully completed tracking every known sample used in face to face.

And if you recall, I began this ambitious task teasing that every one of these samples have something in common.

Did you figure it out?

Well, if you noticed, I stated the release year of every song Daft Punk and Todd Edwards sampled.

And every song they sampled falls between 1971 and 1982, about a decade's span.

And even more attentive listeners might have noticed that actually every sample we've tracked on Discovery this season has also fallen in that same decade's span.

Why is this significant?

Well, think about Discovery's central concept, blending the music Thomas and Guimond discovered and loved as children.

As kids growing up in the 70s and early 80s, the source material behind Face to Face, and really the entire album, comes directly from that formative era.

For me, it's an incredible final detail on an incredible album.